Solar Ovens: Cooking with the Sun in an Emergency (and Every Day)

[@hollypatino]

I love using my Sun Oven! I love that it’s easy to use and it actually works. The first thing I made was rice (if it can’t cook rice, then it’s useless for emergencies! Haha) and it did a beautiful job. I like baking with it during the Summer so I don’t heat up the house.

[@steveb855]

The car sun shade/reflectix+oven bag worked for baking cornbread in a cast iron skillet.

[@karinhart489]

Thanks for the reminder to try my 8” cast iron skillet as well as the black collapsible silicone pot that cam with.

[@AnnBearForFreedom]

My California high desert is PERFECT for my solar box oven. Grilled sandwiches are a thing of joy!

[@susanfraser1647]

2 years later, a very helpful video

[@jerryross7135]

You can use a magnifying glass and black metal plate. Using the magnifying glass, focus the suns rays onto the metal plate, in as small, tiny point of focus. You can almost weld using a magnifying glass. It could be used in conjunction with this solar cooker and really speed up the cooking speed. You can quickly fry eggs and meat on a black plate using this technique.

[@carolynsteele5116]

I LOVE your channel. You don't spew armchair theories, but instead show practical methods that you actually put into practice. (What good is untested advice on surviving a zombie apocalypse? The last thing I'm going to do is run into the forest with a backpack and a buck knife.) As for my sun oven, I copied simple one from a cardboard box that I found on KZbin. It cooked a beautiful stew in a crock pot. After your encouragement I'll try some more!

[@kristanichols6215]

I watch you two often trying g to get ideas and deciding what fits into my budget ,so glad you offer several things gs that can work for prepping ,especially cooking and heating. Thanks for being there.

[@TheProvidentPrepper]

Thanks for being part of the solution!

[@philw7174]

Great video, thank you. Looking to try this soon. Happy trails!

[@edbuyers]

Again another quality video. I stocked up on lots of cooking bags for my oven -- no mess. QOTD = I also use the oven for no knead bread, whole chicken once a month. I should use it more... Living in Florida its sunny all the time. Thanks.

[@milesandcoffee]

Like Kylene, I use my box oven (Global Sun Oven) once every week--not just for emergencies. I make quiche and chicken rice dinners with no problem. It is well made and easy to use. A great investment.

[@inyayardhomestead5693]

G'day guys, I've never used one before but I love the idea of it, will have to try it out some day, it would work really well here on Australia. God bless you guys.

[@inyayardhomestead5693]

@@TheProvidentPrepper thanks will let you know how I go.

[@NewHampshireJack]

Watching the part where the solar over is used to pasteurize water gave me an idea. The same process could be used to accelerate the making of sun brewed tea. Thank you guys for the best overview of solar cookers I have seen. We definitely need to add one or more to our list of gear and get some experience cooking with the appliance. Not for rainy season here in the Philippines but will certainly be a welcome addition the rest of the year.

[@patriciaribaric3409]

I am surprised the tire solar cooker was a fail. I remember seeing one being created in Africa in a video. I won't waste my time trying to make that one. Thank you!!!

[@robininva]

This was wonderful! Y’all are incredibly knowledgeable and thank you for sharing consistently and freely. ♥️

[@michaelkaer]

I salvaged a few Freznel lens from old large TVs and I can use them to focus the sun like a magnifier does.

[@Trendlespin]

My husband always say I am right too. LOL YEt, sometimes he goes ahead and does his own thing before he comes back to, "Your right."

[@mkmason2002]

The major problem with this type of oven will be when the grand solar minimum comes, which begins this winter. The GSM is due to a weak magnetic solar force which results in few sunspots. Sunspots give off heat energy which causes solar winds. These winds push cosmic rays away from the earth. With the GSM these winds are abated and the cosmic rays penetrate the earth and cause cloud nucleation, {cloud formation.} which reflects the sun's heat, thus cools the earth and blocks direct sunlight. The CR also penetrate the silica-rich magma chamber of volcanoes and cause eruptions. The ash plumes further block the sun's rays and cause further cooling. The Jet Stream is also disrupted and will wobble instead of straight lines and cause a polar vortex to head south and equatorial heat to rise north. I do have a solar oven which I purchased before I received this information and know they work well. However, in light of this new info on the GSM I'm turning to wood. Blessings to you! Love your program. It's a ministry to those whose eyes are opened to what is to come shortly.

[@mkmason2002]

@@TheProvidentPrepper Definitely, options. Plan A, plan B, plan C are a must for us preppers! : )

[@jenallen5202]

My son and I made one from a pizza box. It made s'mores. It won't cook meat but it will say heat water or soup. Melted ham and cheese sandwich .

[@deebeedraws]

Thank you for such a thorough review and for all the tips! You guys are the best! #couplegoals haha

[@sharonmorton6734]

REQUEST: Please show how to make a simple skillet bread on a rocket stove. Start to finish. the operation of the rocket stove, the heating of the iron skillet, creating the bread dough and cooking it. You are my "go to" channel and am getting a bit nervous re the unrest to come. It would set my mind at ease to know I can do this ahead of time. I think it would be well received by others as well.

[@karinhart489]

Watching some of your older videos tonight, this one on Solar Cooking because Santa got me a “Sunflair Mini Portable Solar Oven” to take camping to experiment with. I asked for that one because it folds flat into a flat pouch & will tuck nicely out of the way in my minivan camper escape pod. So that gives me a 4th way to cook: butane/propane single burner stove, 12v HotLogic slow cooker, a Trangia style alcohol stove, and now this mini solar oven. I’m proficient on the first two, and have a long learning curve on the last 2.

[@gidgetsmart7186]

How well does that portable solar oven work for you? I've considered getting one, but see mixed reviews.

[@michaelkaer]

I bought a solar oven and once I understood what was going on, I made a solar oven from parts from the second hand store under 10 dollars. So far I have only heated soup.

[@Trendlespin]

Thank you two for this very informative video. I wonder if anyone has any experience with the suntaste solar oven which is made from cork and thus lighter. This one looks really attractive to me but I sure would like to hear some reviews from people who have tried it.

[@CreativeRedundancy]

Hello Both of you i figure i shine on this video first :) with pun :) . I have tried solar stuff like this before even distilled bug ,yellow water .. Good to have as an option and really extend the fuel of other sources in a emergency or not heat the inside during summer too take CaRe

[@stevec3872]

I've had a Sun Oven for 18 years now although I haven't used it for a few years. I have made all kinds of things in it including bread, chicken, & cookies which are great because they won't burn. I've had people smell the baking bread outside, come to my door and ask what it is. Now I'm interested in the water pasteurization capabilities it has.

[@shelleycook4232]

Is box oven heavy to move

[@garrettferrell6821]

I need to buy a good solar oven or atleast find some instructions to make a good solar oven..I’ve never used one or even seen one used in person but I’ve read a lot about them..seen some solar cookers on Amazon where your food is cooked in a round pipe,it looked and sounded pretty interesting..a lot of people seemed to really like them

[@biblebeliever4570]

I bought a solar cooker years ago but never used it. I live in an apartment that doesn't give me a good way to capture the sun until afternoon.

[@AllThingsConsidered333]

I’m guessing one couldn’t do this in northern winter? Probably only in summer

[@gidgetsmart7186]

Have you tried one of the portable solar ovens that packs small for camping? How do those do? I've seen mixed reviews, but if it's good, I'd love to have one in my camping/prep gear.

[@123gwilco]

Could you do a review on the "Energy Wise Premium Solar Oven" as seen on Amazon. I have priced the more expensive ovens and they are out of my budget. Can this solar cooker perform as the more expensive ones???

[@elaines5179]

What I have never seen is using sun oven reflectors applied to a regular solar panel to greatly increase the efficiency of a solar panel. Box oven reflectors feeding the sun into a solar panel instead of the box for the pot.

[@shelleycook4232]

Another thing does the glass lid get hot

[@stevec3872]

An aside about the term "prepper". I believe in being prepared, but today a "prepper" has come to define those for whom preparing has become an all-consuming obsession rising to a near cult-like level of religious experience, missing many nice days prepping for potential SHTF and TEOTWAWKI days that might never come.

[@kingscairn]

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it - now, i'm off to find another wife as a spare just in case - and yes, those stupid preppers are obsessed

[@stephenwilliams5201]

Turkey mm. Army boys cook on the manifold of the trucks. Or fenders in the sun. Foil does the honors. I used a box with reflectors to warm coffee at 30°. Solar is king.

[@anetteolofsson4315]

Do you have a drawing for how to build one solar oven? Live in Sweden, and to get a solar oven from Usa höst about 1000 Dollar! Kind regards

[@lindakean7392]

I would check out you tube. There are a lot of DIY examples for solar ovens!

[@stevenfeil7079]

Solar Box oven? Call it what it is, Global Solar Oven. Give the companies credig.

[@3dbunkers]

in a tire? Nice toxic flavor